China Splits Over Mao’s Long March

By

Robin Moroney

Jan 16, 2008 5:56 pm ET

Recounting the bravery and sacrifice of those on Mao Zedong’s Long March used to be a unifying force in China. Now competing views of the Long March are dividing the old guard and younger generations, says the Los Angeles Times’s John M. Glionna. Between 1934 and 1936, about 300,000 Red Army soldiers fled from government […]